Corporate Watch Newsletter Issue 15: September - October 2003

What's it all about? Newsletter 15 thinks it knows: dancing around arms dealers; celebrating Cancun, getting furious with fluoride and otherwise hitting the corporate psyche where it hurts. With ideas for action, reasons to be cheerful, life, death, Art, and art (original drawings from reportage illustrator Jill Gibbon).

ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO
Lucy Michaels pulls apart the threads of the Cancun story and weaves a tapestry of downright bullying, outright resistance and tentative hope.

NEWS
Do you want the government to medicate you without your consent? Should Unocal be prosecuted? Tricky questions... Plus: Green Gloves save the planet; Nike saves itself; a fascinating insight into the House of Commons, and the latest on UN attempts to curb the corporations.

EXCUSE ME, BUT ARE YOU GOING TO THE ARMS FAIR?
Corporate Watch at DSEi, talking to people making money in ways they wouldn't want to explain to their children (unless they disliked them intensely).

ART SCHMART
“Stick a can of Carslberg in that cornfield, will you, Vincent?” Justin Schamotta investigates corporate artists.

BABYLONIAN TIMES
– it's funnier than you think.

PLUS: your diary, my diary, everyone's diary...

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